New Underground Records

New Underground Records

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New Underground Records is an American DIY punk record label founded in 1980, based out of South Bay, Los Angeles California. It was founded by Danny Dean Phillips and the late Gary Kail. New Underground Records is one of the first DIY punk record labels to come out of the South Bay punk scene of the 1980's. In 1990, Gary Kail signed over his shares of New Underground Records leaving Danny the sole owner.

The label was one of the three main (New Underground Records, SST Records, and New Alliance) DIY punk labels originally distributed through Greenworld Distribution, which later became Enigma Records.

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Danny Dean achieved commercial success at the golden age of MTV with a plethora of music videos and nationwide radio rotaton small college radio to the likes of California's KROQ with his post-punk band Easter, notorious for lineup changes that regularly featured Mike Ness early Social Distortion and a late Brent Liles early Social Distortion and post-Easter Agent Orange fame. He is eminent for instigating Neo-Rockabilly with his band Danny Dean and the Homewreckers and his modern 80's twist on vintage rock and roll throughout the Pre-Nascent Rockabilly Revival and the Neo-Swing Revival touring touring with established acts like The Specials, English Beat, Billy Idol to name a few. Currently Danny Dean is involved in many band projects between touring with some pretty big acts he has also opened a chain of analog recording studios from New York to California. Stay tuned for more to come as we relaunch our website and release some albums onto the world.